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B1970.028.271
[Two men in kayak]
Keywords: transportation, ethnotechnology, boats
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B2007.005.6.B21
[native man working on a kayak inside a house, ribs struts and coaming complete]
Keywords: sea kayak
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2014.003.5
15767(Victor Animatograph Co.)(Reindeer)[Reindeer herders on gravel beach with native kayaker in water just off shore]
Keywords: reindeer, kayak
Collection: B2014.003
B1970.028.270
[Two men in kayak next to large ship]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B2022.003.71
F 116 122, Two men in kayak [two individuals sitting back to back in a skin kayak on the water]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Indigenous, Kayak, Skin
Collection: B2022.003 Temkin
B1985.027.2452
Originally in B8 F158. Wien Eskimo Kayaks. Kayak hunter & Helen Hood 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1989.016.1629
[J.S. Wood painting of man in kayak. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2007.005.6.B25
[native man tending to a cooking fire next to his kayak on a beach]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2013.066.258
Kayak frame, Kakhonak [dogs in foreground, small buildings in background, Kokhanok]
Keywords: boats, ethnotechnology, animals, transportation
Collection: B2013.066
B1995.014.104.13
[kayak under construction outside earth house or barabara in wooded area, lower Yukon?]
Keywords: boats, residences, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B2006.003.41
E.A. Hegg [Native men in kayaks or umiaks pulled up alongside large ship]
Keywords: boats
Collection: B2006.003
B1964.001.775
Eskimos of the Bering Coast after a seal hunt. Martin [Alaska Natives in kayak. Photographer A.B. Martin]
Keywords: hunting, subsistence, ethnotechnology, boats
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B2005.013.446
Eskimos, Hooper Bay, 7/1951 [large group of Alaska Natives posed with kayak on deck of Health]
Collection: B2005.013
B2007.005.4.027
"ASC project #!6" [two men sittling in kayaks in tall grass; animal pelts stretched on wooden racks and placed atop kayaks; tools with long handles support woven grass mats in background; metal pans at right]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1998.014.1.1225
"O58 An Eskimo kayak and dog sled." (1958 postcard & print; photo by Frank Morgan) [kayak leaning on slde; sled dogs lay nearby on beach; boats in background; canvas wall tents above beach, stove pipes.; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2150.2
Alaska, Merry Christmas [greeting card with drawing of polar bear and kayak with photograph of ice chunks in Cook Inlet. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.046.23
Hooper Bay, 8/51 [Alaska Native men, women, and children standing on low bluff above beach, Yupik kayak in foreground]
Collection: B1991.046
B1998.014.1.1226
"O58 An Eskimo kayak and dog sled." (1958 postcard & print; photo by Frank Morgan) [same as .1225; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.261
3.9. 9/26/25. Port Wells, Alaska. Off in bidarkas, for 20 m. paddle [four men in two three-hole Alutiiq kayaks]
Keywords: transportation, boats
Collection: B2015.008
B1985.027.1475
Originally in B4 F101. Wien Destinations. Kotzebue III. Kayak on side, eskimo & Helen Hood. 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1985.027.2453
Originally in B8 F158. Wien Eskimo Kayaks. Helen Hood, Barrow. 8 x 10 negative. Severe vinegar syndrome, warping.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1973.096.34
Plate 718_Noatak Kaiaks_From Copyright Photograph1928 by E S Curtis_Photogravure Suffolk Eng Co Cambridge, Mass [10 Native men paddling kayaks]
Collection: B1973.096
B1988.003.190
Kayac races, Fourth of July, Kotzebue, Alaska. FHW 1 [Inupiat man paddling kayak along beach, Wien Hotel and floatplane in background]
Keywords: recreation, boats, aviation
Collection: B1988.003 Ingalls Collection
B2005.013.121
Fishing in creek near Hooper Bay, 7-1951 [Alaska Native women fishing from bank, other women near drying racks and kayak in background]
Collection: B2005.013
B2017.024.1318
Diomede. Photographer's number: 01543 [man holding spear in kayak next to ice edge, blood and small pieces of possibly seal meat on ice]
Collection: B2017.024
B2018.021.690
Alaskan photography by Everett J. Wilde, Tetlin [Alaska Native hunter wearing white parka pulling black kayak on sled across sea ice]
Collection: B2018.021
B2005.013.160
Eskimos, Mekoryuk, 6/21/51, kayaks in background [Alaska Native woman wearing print parka, headscarf and sunglasses standing with three young girls on beach, one girl wearing print parka, one wearing fur parka, and one wearing Western-style clothing, kayaks, Quonset hut, and drying rack in background. Girl at left Lizzie Viola Amos, cf. .161]
Collection: B2005.013
B1995.010.4940
[Wien Consolidated Airlines float on parade, man sitting in Eskimo kayak, woman sitting in sled frame, two young boys in back, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B1973.096.21
Plate 699_The Village Hooper Bay_From Copyright Photograph1928 by E S Curtis_Photogravure Suffolk Eng Co Cambridge, Mass [A view of the village of Hooper Bay including beached kayaks and dwellings]
Collection: B1973.096
B1991.050.3
Eskimo in kiack, St. Michael. Drane [Alaska Native man wearing gut parka using oar in Yup'ik style kayak in harbor, buildings of St. Michael in background, circa 1903]
Keywords: transportation, boats
Collection: B1991.050
B1989.016.2058.2
Alaska, Merry Christmas (Christmas Cards 1936-37) [Christmas card mat with sketch of men in kayak, bear, and holly leaves, with photograph of snoy road with hoar-frosted trees. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.020a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [three people in wooden kayaks lined up in water alongside dock or pier, parkas, caps, paddles; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.020b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: [three people in wooden kayaks lined up in water alongside dock or pier, parkas, caps, paddles; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.1339
PE5 An Eskimo home inside of the Arctic Circle (Kotzebue, Feb 1948) [kayaks, dog sled, fish nets stored on supports; dogs curled on ground; structures, stove pipe, snow, likely sea ice in background, winter]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2007.005.5.028
[stereo view of two men sitting in kayaks atop snow, possibly supported by a sled; oars; woven grass mats used for windbreak; snowshoe; Hiils Bros. can; tea pot; man on left appears to be operating a fuel stove (?); sea ice in distance]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2018.023.025a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [label possibly] “18” [or] “78” [Caribou herd on shore; likely albino caribou in foreground; antlers; beach; herders, men, possible tourists; person in kayak; rope strung from shore to object outside of frame; man taking photographs; driftwood; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.025b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [label possibly] “18” [or] “78” [verso of slide: Caribou herd on shore; likely albino caribou in foreground; antlers; beach; herders, men, possible tourists; person in kayak; rope strung from shore to object outside of frame; man taking photographs; driftwood; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1983.091.S1564.B14
{Nunvak Island trip: Native people. (Mekoryuk Village)} [view of village, structures, homes, fish drying racks, laundry, clotheslines, tarpaper roofs, quonsets, driftwood fences, enclosures, canvas wall tents, storage tanks, beach grass, kayaks, boats, Bering Sea, iand in distance, person walking at left of center; boy sitting on steel drum (container) at left, windmill church or school at center background will bell on roof]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2015.008.261a
3_9 92625_Fort Wells, Alaska Off in bidarkas for 20m paddle
Keywords: sea kayak, kayak, prince william sound, port wells
Collection: B2015.008